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Linux for Oracle Specialists Linux for Oracle specialists Frits Hoogland DBA Symposium 18 november 2008 Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND WHO AM I? . Frits Hoogland . Working with oracle software since 1996 . Blogging at http://frits.homelinux.com . Email: [email protected] . Oracle DB, Application server(s), EBS . Tomcat, Jboss, Websphere . Postgresql, enterprise DB, MySQL . Apache . Technical (network) security Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND AGENDA . Poll . History, redhat and oracle . Linux 32 and 64 bit . Access to linux systems . X . IO . Handy tools: logrotate . Handy tools: sar . Handy tools: sosreport . Handy tools: mii-tool/ethtool . Handy tools: iperf Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND POLL . Anyone using linux for corporate systems with oracle? . Coming from: . Unix . Mainframe . Windows . Tidbits: . 32 bit . 64 bit . Version: . RHEL3 . RHEL4 . RHEL5 Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE . What is Linux? . A unix like kernel . Created and conceived in 1991 by a Finnish student called Linus Torvalds . A kernel is not an complete operating system Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE . Why Linux? . A project to study the intel 80386 processor . Close relationship with Minix (Tanenbaum et al) . Restricted use of Minix source . Linux was depended upon Minux userspace Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE . GNU . Free software mass collaboration project . Richard Stallman . Januari 1984 . “GNU’s Not Unix” . GNU General Public License “GPL” Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE • GNU software includes: – bash – Autoconf – Binutils – Bison – Emacs – Gcc – Gnome – Libstdc++ Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE • Minix 16-bit design at that time – Linux specifically meant for 32 bit intel 80386 – Debate/critisism about kernel design • Linux could benefit from GNU userspace tools • GNU could benefit from Linux kernel • Linux released under GPL in 1992 • version 0.12 – With GNU userland tools Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE • GNU General Public License; GNU GPL; GPL – Free software license – Copyleft license – Free for anyone to use – Free for anyone to modify – Modifications need to be made publically available – GPL’ed source can not be made close source – Source needs to be available This is my interpretation, I am not a lawyer! Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE • Distribution / “Distro” – Linux kernel – GNU tools – X window system – Distribution specific things • Startup scripts • Package manager – Much more… Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE . Distributions . Anyone is free to make a distribution… . Commercial: RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva . Community: Debian, Gentoo . Single person: Slackware . Amongst the approx. ~ 345 distributions Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE . Back to the Oracle connection… . Supported Distro’s for Oracle products: . RedHat enterprise Linux (RHEL) . SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) . Asianux . See metalink “certify” tab for specific details Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE . The RHEL – OEL connection . RHEL needs to make source available . Source can be recompiled to make RHEL clone: . CentOS (most popular) – http:// www.centos.org . Whitebox enterprise Linux – http:// whiteboxlinux.org . StartCom Linux – http://www.startcom.org . Oracle Enterprise Linux – http:// linux.oracle.com Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE . The RHEL – OEL connection . OEL is created from the source of RHEL . Different artwork . Compatible at source and binary level . Different online repository (up2date) . Using oracle’s up2date repository with RHEL install! . Oracle patches Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND HISTORY, REDHAT AND ORACLE • The RHEL – OEL connection • Conclusion: – RHEL and OEL are made to be fully compatible – New versions are made from RHEL source – Oracle can patch something, and donate it to linux community (for version 5): • Kernel: patch for bug with bonding ethernet devices • Kernel-utils: Updated firmware from Intel Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT . Linux 32 bit versus Linux 64 bit . Processor address bus width . 32 bit linux can be installed on 64 bit processor . 64 bit linux can NOT be installed on 32 bit processor . Why? Memory addressing! . 2 ^ 32 = 4’294’967’296 = 4 GB . 2 ^ 64 = 18’446’744’073’709’551’616 = 16 EB Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT • RHEL4 / 32 bit kernel types: – Standard/UP kernel: kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm • 3GB userspace, 1GB kernelspace • 4GB addressable – SMP kernel: kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm • 3GB userspace, 1GB kernelspace • 16GB addressable – Hugemem kernel: kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm • 4GB userspace, 4GB kernelspace * • 64GB addressable Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT . 16 GB ?! . 64 GB ?! . But that is physically impossible! (again: 2 ^ 32 = 4’294’967’296 = 4 GB) Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT • PAE – Physical Address Extension • Processor option: [root@test ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo … flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 constant_tsc monitor Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT . PAE increases the number of bits of the address bus to 36! . 2 ^ 36 = 68’719’476’736 = 64 GB . But it’s not that easy… Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT • Virtual addressing in userspace is not modified – 32-bits addresses – 32-bits -> 4GB maximum! • So all limits still apply – Even with PAE • Need special call to address memory using PAE Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT • PAE & Oracle database – “VLM” / “Very Large Memory” – USE_INDIRECT_DATA_BUFFERS = true • Effectively places the buffercache in PAE memory – Usage of ramfs (or shmfs or tmpfs): /dev/shm – Following parameters are incompatible with VLM: • SGA_TARGET • DB_CACHE_SIZE (only DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS allowed) • DB_xK_CACHE_SIZE • MEMORY_TARGETThis is essentially a 32 bit issue, same with other 32-bit OS’es Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT . PAE & Oracle database . Only for putting buffercache beyond 4GB . All other structures remain in 32-bit addressable memory . Which means 4GB* limit still applies to those Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT . RHEL5 / 32 bit kernel types: . Standard kernel: kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.i686.rpm . 3GB userspace, 1GB kernelspace . 4GB addressable . PAE kernel: kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.el5.i686.rpm . 3GB userspace, 1GB kernelspace . 64GB addressable (16GB supported?) Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT • RHEL4 / 64 bits – Kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm • Standard kernel for UP systems – Kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm • Kernel for systems with up to 8 CPU’s – Kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm • Kernel for systems with up to 512 CPU’s • RHEL5 / 64 bits – Kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.x86_64.rpm • For version 4 and 5 kernel current limit is 256GB Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND LINUX 32 AND 64 BIT . General recommendations: . 32 bit hardware is deprecated . 64 bit hardware is not excessively more expensive . Use 64 bit O/S whenever possible . Only use 32 bit O/S when no other options exist . It’s possible to use 32 bit software on 64 bit O/S! . It is easy/likely to encounter memory scaling problems with 32-bit OS’es!! Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND ACCESS TO LINUX SYSTEMS . Access & usage of linux(/unix) systems . Common methods: (poll: who uses) . Telnet . Rsh/Rlogin/R* . FTP . XDMCP . VNC (?) . Ssh . Others? Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND ACCESS TO LINUX SYSTEMS • Telnet – Does NOT encrypt any data, including password – No authentication to detect MITM attacks – Most telnet daemons have vulnerabilities – STRONGLY advised NOT to use it – I would call telnet usage blamable neglect – Even persistent telnet users (networking equip.) have ssh/encrypted access nowadays. d Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND ACCESS TO LINUX SYSTEMS . Rsh / rlogin . Does NOT encrypt any data, including password . No authentication to detect MITM attacks . Very weak authentication . STRONGLY advised NOT to use it . I would call rsh/rlogin usage blamable neglect Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND ACCESS TO LINUX SYSTEMS • FTP – Does NOT encrypt any data, including password – No authentication to detect MITM attacks – Still very popular and standard – Username/password easy sniff able – Usage defendable if files to be transferred are non-sensitive and non-valueable. d Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND ACCESS TO LINUX SYSTEMS . XDMCP . X Display Manager Control Protocol . The client sends a broadcast on UDP/177 . Servers with XDMCP enabled send a ‘WILLING’ packet to sender . Not enabled in modern X implementations . Unencrypted . Not secure . DOS attacks using XDMCP possible d Friday, June 22, 12 LINUX FOR ORACLE SPECIALISTS – FRITS HOOGLAND ACCESS TO LINUX SYSTEMS . VNC . Virtual Network Computing . Developed by the Olivetti and Oracle research lab . 1999: acquired by AT&T, 2002: closed . The VNC protocol (RFB) is not a secure protocol .
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